On the first day of the first month of the seventeenth year of the Apocalypse (1644), the capital became colder, and a sandstorm blew early in the morning, and the snow in the capital was covered by strong winds and sands, and the snow was yellow in a pile, and the palace city of the city, which had been tossed by the plague like a ghost city, made the yellow sand more lifeless, like the hell on earth that was about to catch fire, and the white flags turned into earthy yellow hulala and floated all over the streets and alleys of the capital, and the people of the capital were quietly waiting for the arrival of death. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the capital, death is already a habit, at any time it will be the turn of the plague to take their lives, after their death, it is the most extravagant wish of the people in the capital to have relatives to bury themselves, and there are more than 800 surnames! All who are alive pray to Heaven to stop the plague, for enough people have died! Oh my God! Aren't you going to stop it?

At the gate of the Wuying Hall of the Imperial City, a middle-aged man with his hands behind his back and a sword across his waist looked at the wind and sand in the sky, and looked at the yellowed capital with a sad face.

This person is more than eight feet tall, powerful and powerful, wearing a felt hat, wearing a moon-white shirt, and a cloak like a dark night on his shoulders, like a mountain of people that makes people daunting.

The face is full of vicissitudes, mature and steady, broad eyebrows like a blade, bright eyes, the bridge of the nose is straight like an eagle hook, and there is a long and hard mustache underneath.

Being in the capital, Li Zicheng was very angry and annoyed, and smoked several melon seeds. When Li Zicheng got the information about the inner line of the capital, he said that Emperor Chongzhen's family ran out of the city incognito overnight and didn't know where to go! What do you mean! What do you mean!

Li Zicheng was furious, and no longer besieged the capital, but personally led his troops and horses into the capital! No, it should be said that Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department who was surrendered to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, took the initiative to open the Zhengyang Gate to welcome Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin's army into the capital.

As soon as the gate of the capital opened, Li Zicheng took the lead in carrying the horse in, and the heroism was quite powerful, kicking over the Ming officials who were ready to shoot the horses, Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department, and so on, and went straight to the palace! Get out of the way! Lao Tzu is not in the mood!

Li Zicheng, who broke into the palace, went crazy and looked for Emperor Chongzhen everywhere, but when he didn't find it, he ordered the gate of the capital to be closed, and issued a huge reward to search Chongzhen throughout the city! Whoever catches the live Emperor Chongzhen first will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of gold!

Li Zizi was ruthless to Emperor Chongzhen higher than the sky, thicker than the earth, this Chongzhen boy was not kind in the early years, secretly sent someone to dig up Li Zicheng's ancestral grave, burned the bones of Li Zicheng's ancestors, and threw them in the barren mountains and forests. Li Zicheng vomited three liters of blood after learning about it! greeted all of Chongzhen's relatives and swore to break Chongzhen's bones! Since then, the officials of the Ming Dynasty have also hated it to the core.

Li Zicheng decided to dig three feet into the ground and find out Chongzhen! For three days in a row, the palace in the capital was a chicken, a dog did not fly, and the dog did not jump, they were all eaten, and it was chaos.

Li Zicheng didn't find a single Chongzhen yarn, but found a bunch of eunuchs and palace maids who Chongzhen didn't have time to take away, trembling and crying and kneeling on the ground, strongly asking Li Zicheng to cherish life and stay away from cruelty. It's good to stay alive.

Li Zicheng was annoyed and ashamed and killed several Ming Dynasty officials and eunuchs with his own hands, led his troops into the Ming Tomb of the Great Imperial Family, and wanted to dig up the tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, to vent his hatred, but he didn't find it, and wanted to bombard the Ming Tomb of Xiaoxiao, but was blocked by the military advisor Song Xiance, saying that it was unlucky, disrespectful to the dead, and the mausoleum was broken and ghostly, which would affect the feng shui of the capital, which was greatly unlucky, and affected the national fortune of Dashun. Li Zicheng gave up.

In the following days when Li Zicheng was in the capital, in order to vent his hatred and enrich the silver treasury of Xi'an, the Great Shun State built by Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng killed the officials in the capital.

Li Zicheng set up a "subsidy and town Fu Division" in the capital, what is a pension, to put it bluntly, it is just to loot the property of Ming Dynasty officials, let the general Liu Zongmin preside, the property of Ming Dynasty officials to be thoroughly looted, this is understandable.

Because there are a lot of corrupt officials in the capital, in order to make money and take bribes, they are full of tricks, outrageous, and have no national concept, their own country is ruined by the Ming Dynasty, and they are not ashamed, they only know that their own corrupt property is not lost, and it is the truth that corruption is the death of the country! But among these officials, there are also Qing officials and good officials of the Ming Dynasty, which also made Liu Zongmin stew.

Liu Zongmin was very vicious, and sent more than 800 people to the military camp to preside over the meeting to chase dirty and help the salary, and turned the military camp into a hell on earth, regardless of the size of the officials, everyone was beaten with knives, and the torture was carried out in a variety of ways, some were roasted to death with fire, some had their legs broken, and some were drowned with water.

On the other hand, these high-ranking relatives of the Ming Emperor, ministers of civil and military affairs, and wealthy businessmen have shed a tear and given a grain to the people who died of hunger. The cycle of cause and effect, retribution is unpleasant.

The soldiers of Liu Zongmin saw that the officials were like this, and they also took the opportunity to enter the people's homes and loot them, and carried out ** on women, many families could not bear this kind of tragedy, and hanging could be seen everywhere, and for a time the city of Beijing fell into all kinds of chaos.

When the outcasts become mobs, they no longer have compassion, but only tyrannical hearts, do whatever they want, become beasts, and are no longer bound by human ethics.

The capital is about to become a hell on earth, and Song Xiance, a military advisor with a compassionate heart, tried his best to take advantage of the sandstorm on New Year's Day in the capital and the warning of the celestial phenomena to Li Zicheng: "The sky is tragic, the sun is dark, and it is urgent to stop the execution, treat the people of the capital well, and strictly enforce military discipline. Li Zichengcai, who believed in ghosts and gods, ordered the army to prohibit disturbing the people and killing innocents indiscriminately, which gave the people of the capital a peaceful place.

At this time, Li Zicheng really wanted to cry without tears, Chongzhen, this kid ran away, and dragged his family to run, running away without a trace, really shameless! Could it be that I wrote to him a while ago and asked too much to scare this kid away!

The content of the letter to Chongzhen is nothing more than ceding the northwest to me Li Zicheng, let me also be the king of Shaanxi, I am easy to fight for half my life, I manage the place by myself, and I don't need the court to interfere. Then just give a five million taels of silver, is five million taels of silver high, not high, you can pay in installments, it's negotiable, you can get a discount, what does it mean! Half of the cash is also done, we can join forces to fight the pig's tail (Manchu Qing), this is good, I didn't see anyone running away when I replied, it was really aggrieved, and the angry Li Zicheng had to do it himself.

Since entering the capital, Li Zicheng's army has been divided into two factions, one is the hedonistic faction dominated by the strategist Niu Jinxing and the general Liu Zongmin, which prompted Li Zicheng to ascend the throne as emperor, and the other is the anti-Qing faction dominated by military advisors Song Xiance and Li Yan, prompting Li Zicheng to contact Chongzhen to negotiate and unite against the Manchu Qing, a great enemy outside the Guanwai.

In fact, Li Zicheng was more inclined to the proposal of the strategist Niu Jinxing, and immediately ascended the throne as the emperor, and after fighting for half his life, he should also enjoy the blessings of the Qing Dynasty, and give the brothers who were born and died together to be knighted, first, to enjoy the life of the emperor, and second, to make the brothers happy, but there is no bottom in his heart.

Listening to the analysis of this military advisor Song Xiance, it is very reasonable, saying that the strong enemy Manchu Qing has not been eliminated, and now he cannot ascend the throne to Xuan Di, he should unite with Chongzhen and defeat the Manchu Qing first, and then Chongzhen will agree to anything.

Song Xiance, the military advisor of the anti-Qing faction, and others also cautiously explained the situation to Li Zicheng, and did not dare to criticize Li Zicheng's hedonistic mentality.

Since then, Song Xiance has not left King Chuang's side by step, for fear that Niu Jinxing and others will enter the gluttony to sabotage his own anti-Qing proposition.

Although Li Zicheng is a rough man, he is also a rough man, and he can analyze things, the master of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, he can't do it without a little brain, so he and Song Xiance briefly analyzed the reason why Chongzhen ran away.

Song Xiance analyzed Li Zicheng truthfully, it stands to reason that Li Zimin wrote several letters to Emperor Chongzhen, and every time Chongzhen has a post, he must reply, and his reputation is just right, either scolding Li Zicheng for being a fart, or scolding Li Zicheng for being a yarn, he dares to talk to me about the conditions, I bah! Die, Yunyun! Anyway, every time I reply to the letter, I let Li Zicheng enjoy it like a spring breeze.

This time it's different, Chongzhen didn't even reply to the post, this is immoral, according to Chongzhen's past habits, he will not give up the opportunity to speak quickly, Li Zicheng is also cheap, Chongzhen's post must be seen every time, every time you can see Li Zicheng's face is green, but it's also a communication, although it's very hooligan and violent.

After the last communication with Chongzhen, he didn't reply to the letter, according to the insider report, at this time, Li Wang's letter was written at a high level, and he showed a big face! Emperor Chongzhen was moved, especially the meaning of the joint anti-Qing Dynasty, which made Chongzhen greatly appreciated, and asked the ministers to hold a meeting to discuss, but the competition was so fierce, divided into two factions, one agreed, one disagreed, and said that even if the two families jointly destroyed the wolf of the Qing Dynasty, how to get Li Zicheng's tiger, I went to compare, Li Zicheng's nose was almost crooked at that time.

Li Zicheng knows too well the ability of these elite court ministers, they fight in groups, fight and fight on the bed, they are all good hands, when they talk about business, they can tear up more than the other, nonsense, and the ministers who can really do things are almost killed by Chongzhen, and there are only some straw bales left.

In order to give Emperor Chongzhen a little time, Li Zicheng also deliberately ordered the besieging soldiers and horses to loosen up, so as not to force Chongzhen, the emperor who wanted to save face, to jump over the wall in a hurry, and then there was no more, Chongzhen ran away. Just because of this omission, Chongzhen was able to run away, Li Zicheng regretted and hated, but Li Zicheng firmly believed that he still understood Chongzhen's temperament, and believed that Chongzhen would not just walk away.

It was late at night, and Li Zicheng in the Wuying Palace, walking back and forth with the straw of loss and holding on to the last hope, looked at his surroundings being guarded by the three layers of personal soldiers, and roared: "Get out of the fuck for this king!" "Suddenly, Li Zimin is a spirit, a bird, forget this layer, and protect me so tightly, how can Chongzhen's messenger see me, and he is not scared to pee!

Hurriedly called Song Xiance, the military advisor from outside the door, and ordered: "You go and pass on the military order of this king, from now on, there shall be no personal soldiers around this king, anyone can bring in to see this king, no obstruction, those who disobey the order will die!" Song Xiance, Li Zicheng's military advisor, was taken aback, what do you mean, don't die, what if an assassin scatters King Chuang, I can't explain it, my mind turned and said: "Yes, obey." So he went out to give orders, but he added a search for his body, and those who had weapons were confiscated for a while. Song Xiance himself is inseparable from Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng can't help it when he sees that the military advisor in front of him is such a friend.

Li Zicheng sat on the dragon chair in the hall, rubbing his sore head, the sky outside the hall slowly darkened, it was time to eat, eat, and the soldiers hurriedly served a table of wine and meat dishes, Li Zicheng ate a few mouthfuls without appetite, the wine was a good thing to relieve sorrow, drinking in a big bowl, spilling into the stomach, the pores of the whole body were comfortable, and the sorrow in his heart was much lighter.

After a while, a personal soldier hurriedly came in and knelt down to report to Li Zicheng: "King Chuang, there is a eunuch outside who asks to see you!" "Song Xiance was overjoyed, and the messenger of Chongzhen came! Li Zicheng was even more excited, and ordered: "Bring it in!" Remember, no one is allowed to enter from now on! "Yes" the soldiers took the order and brought the people in.

Li Zicheng and Song Xiance couldn't wait to see if that eunuch was so bold and dared to be the messenger of Chongzhen's kid!